The tsunami claimed the lives of over 8,000 people in Thailand. Many remain missing and nearly 400 bodies are unclaimed to this day. Mourners shed tears and comforted each other as they laid ...

The wall of water and debris hit coastal resorts in South East Asian countries including Thailand, Indonesia, the Maldives and Sri Lanka. The Boxing Day Tsunami, as it became known, killed more ...

A woman who was able to survive the Boxing Day tsunami in Thailand 20 years ago unharmed, aged eight, because of an elephant said "it makes you grateful for everything that's happened to you".

but he will never forget what confronted him when he first arrived in Thailand to help identify victims of the Boxing Day tsunami. "I stepped into a temple at a place called Wat Yan Yao where ...

Two decades after the Boxing Day tsunami, communities in Phuket gathered to honour the lives lost and reflect on the lessons ...

Within 20 minutes, waves of water began to hit the coasts of surrounding islands. In Indonesia's Aceh province in Northern Sumatra, waves reached 167 feet and caused floods for three miles. Following ...

The Boxing Day tsunami interrupted a civil war ... 11,000 in India, 5,000 in Thailand. Peraliya, Sri Lanka. Now, 20 years on, the ABC has returned to some of the hardest-hit communities to ...

Victims and survivors of the Boxing Day tsunami are being remembered 20 years ... with inhabitants of the coastlines of Indonesia, Thailand, India and Sri Lanka suffering the brunt of the devastation.

On Boxing Day in 2004, a young Australian was ... He was one of the only people with a mobile at the time. The tsunami left many parts of Thailand devastated. Picture: Paula Bronstein/Getty ...